Use powerdesigner 15 to reverse engineer existing databases (Graphic tutorial 2) by yulh

In the previous article "using powerdesigner 15 to reverse engineer an existing database (Graphic tutorial 1)", we introduced the data sources required for reverse engineering, this article generates a E-R Graph Based on the created data source. The detailed steps are as follows:

1. Start PD

2. Menu: File> reverse engineer> database new physical data model dialog box

Click "OK" to bring up the database reverse engineering Options dialog box:

Select using a data source, click the Data Source button to bring up the connection to a data source dialog box, select the data source we created earlier from the drop-down box, and enter the user ID and password

Click connection to connect to the database and retrieve all database objects. Here we select all tables.

Click OK !!, See the following section:

 

By yulh